Living Carbon is a public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change by transforming marginal land into high-value environmental assets. Our team specializes in restoring abandoned mineland and degraded agricultural land into diverse, thriving forests. We’re backed by prominent investors including Temasek, Toyota Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Felicis Ventures, and YCombinator.
We are seeking a highly proactive Lead to join our Land Partnerships team. Backed by a groundbreaking carbon offtake agreement with Microsoft, Living Carbon is reforesting degraded mine and agricultural lands across the Eastern US, with the goal of achieving positive outcomes for the environment, local communities, and landowners. This position will have a particular focus on marginal and degraded agricultural lands in the US Southeast and Mississippi Alluvial Valley. You will be responsible for identifying, engaging and educating, and onboarding new landowners to build high-quality forest carbon projects with us. We are looking for someone with a creative mindset and strong community engagement skills, who can build long-lasting relationships with private owners, land trusts, nonprofits, corporates, government agencies, and tribal nations.
Your key activities in this role will be landowner outreach and engagement, educating them about Living Carbon forest carbon programs, aligning relevant stakeholders, and negotiating and closing commercial deals. You will work with a world-class internal team of land agents, foresters, carbon scientists, GIS specialists, and commercial strategists.
This role requires a candidate who can clearly and effectively communicate with both external partners and internal teams in a collaborative manner. A successful candidate will think creatively about project opportunities and strive to find win-win solutions for all stakeholders involved. You are empathetic to the problems others face, a good listener, and a team player and would be described as “willing to do what it takes to get the job done”.This role will report to our Land Partnerships Lead.
We highly encourage diverse candidates to apply and contact us with any questions about the application process.